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A Surat based diamond baron has gifted his employees brand new cars, diamond jewellery and even homes as a Diwali gift for meeting targets for the year. He said the gifts were in recognition of their hard work.
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Los Angeles: Spanish star Penelope Cruz is in negotiations to join Sacha Baron Cohen in comedy film 'Grimsby'. Louis Leterrier is directing the Sony comedy, which is shooting in the UK.
The film's story revolves around a James Bond type, played by Mark Strong, who is forced to hid in...

Kolkata: Happy Singh, a convict in the kidnapping of Khadim shoe baron Partha Roy Burman, was on Monday bludgeoned to death by a fellow inmate at the Presidency jail in Kolkata. Singh, who was serving a life sentence in the kidnapping case, was being held in a highrisk cell of...

New Delhi: A Delhi court today ordered the framing of charges against former Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chief SS Namdhari and 21 others in connection with the killing of Uttar Pradesh liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep.
The charges will be framed on January 29 against the accused.
The court had...

A Delhi court on Saturday deferred for January 13 its order on framing of charges against sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief S S Namdhari and 21 others, arrested in connection with the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in a shootout last year.
"Come for order on...

Bhopal: The BJP is facing the ire in Madhya Pradesh with the Congress cornering the state government over the IT department documents which reveal that the last BJP poll campaign was financed by mining baron Sudhir Sharma. After the startling revelations in the IT department report, the Congress party workers...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday ordered initiation of proceedings to declare as absconders eight accused who could not be traced and questioned by police over the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep in November 2012. The eight accused, all belonging to Uttar Pradesh, could...

Show Bits brings you the 70th annual Golden Globes awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.
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Kolkata: A HuJI militant wanted in the 2001 abduction case of shoe baron Partha Pratim Roy Burman has been arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police from the Port area. 45yearold Mijanaur Rehman, wanted in the abduction of Khadim shoe company owner Burman in 2001, was arrested during...

New Delhi: Investigators believe that Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, arrested in connection with the Ponty Chadha case, had tried to destroy evidence regarding the pistol he allegedly used to fire during the killing of the brothers in a south Delhi farmhouse.
Delhi Police had on Sunday recovered a 7.62 mm pistol from...

Lucknow: Barely two days after his gruesome death in a shootout in Delhi, billionaire Ponty Chadha's liquor and other businesses in Uttar Pradesh could be the first casualty of the incident, government officials said on Monday.
While admitting that it was a bit "early" to speculate about such an eventuality, officials...

New Delhi: A firing incident has been reported from liquor baron Ponty Chadha's farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area in which one person has been killed. The person killed is said to be Ponty Chadhas brother while the guard of the farmhouse has been injured.
Ponty Chadha, who has several private bodyguards,...

Los Angeles: A 14minute film trailer blamed for protest violence in the Middle East will remain on YouTube, after an actress lost her legal challenge to take it down.
Cindy Lee Garcia, who appeared in 'Innocence of Muslims,' asked a judge to order the video removed in a Los Angeles County...

Hyderabad: Suspended judge K Lakshminarasimha Rao and others, who had mediated with the associates of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy to secure his bail, is learnt to have initially demanded Rs 500 crore from the mining baron. But the deal did not shape up as the then CBI special...

Hyderabad: A joint team of investigators from the AntiCorruption Bureau (ACB) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are learnt to have headed to Bangalore for further probe into the cashforbail scam involving mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy. Though the bail scam is being investigated by...

Hyderabad: The AntiCorruption Bureau (ACB) is likely to seek a Prisoner Transit (PT) warrant to examine jailed mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy in the cashforbail case. He is currently lodged in a Karnataka jail in the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) case. The ACB on Monday filed a 40page chargesheet in...

Hyderabad: TH Suresh Babu, MLA from Kampli in Karnataka, had promised mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy that he would, with the assistance of former Karnataka minister Sriramulu, convince judges to grant him bail, and he kept his word. He confessed to AntiCorruption Bureau officials that he had, along with Janardhan...

New Delhi: Google 'Madagascar' and two of your top three results will not be the country that lies off the coast of southeast Africa, but the DreamWorks Animation movie franchise. The first two installments have earned more than $1.1 billion worldwide. The third, 'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,' opens in...

New Delhi: The trailer of 'Les Miserables' is out. The film stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Samantha Barks, and Aaron Tveit as pivotal characters. Directed by Tom Hooper, the film is based on the novel of the same...

New Delhi: Martin Scorsese's 3D adventure drama 'Hugo' is finally releasing in India. It is based on Brian Selznick's novel by the name 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'. The film is written by John Logan while Johnny Depp has donned the role of one of the producers of the film.
The...

New Delhi: Slain IPS officer Narender Kumar's wife has demanded CBI probe into her husband's killing, saying it was a murder and not accident. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had ordered a judicial probe into the incident.
The probe into the incident that sparked an outrage was announced by...

Bhind: A young IPS officer was attacked allegedly by liquor barons, including supporters of former BJP MLA Narendra Singh, in Bhind district when he tried to check illegal sale of liquor on the day when another promising officer was crushed to death allegedly by the mining mafia.
The alleged incident occurred...

Los Angeles: Outfitted extravagantly in character, Sacha Baron Cohen ran amuck on the Oscars' red carpet Sunday night and all over E! host Ryan Seacrest's tuxedo.
After initially being disinvited by the academy, Baron Cohen was allowed to attend the ceremony acting as the kind of Moammar Gadhafi parody he plays...

Los Angeles: Sacha Baron Cohen has won his battle with the Academy to attend the mega award function dressed as the character from his upcoming film 'Dictator'.
The 40yearold actor was earlier banned from attending the red carpet event in the dictactor regalia as the Academy did not want the award...

Los Angels: Known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters Ali G, Borat, and Brno, actor Sacha Baron Cohen has been barred from attending the 84th Academy Awards Sunday because of the costume he wanted to wear!
Cohen has been told he can't walk the red carpet dressed...

New Delhi: The Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) will investigate how information on the Income Tax department's raids on liquor baron Gurpreet Chadha alias Ponty Chadha was leaked earlier this month.
The CBDT said that it was confirmed that 100 crore rupees were in Chadha's locker but when the IT...